Reeva, Bog Guide1WUB
Legendary Creature – Human Cleric [MR]
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, choose a card type, then reveal the top card of your library. If the revealed card shares the chosen card type, you gain life equal to its converted mana cost and put that card into your hand. Otherwise, put the revealed card on the bottom of your library. T, Pay 2 life: Scry 2. 2/2
See spoiler below for Reeva, Bog Guide design notes:
I created Reeva, Bog Guide as a bottom up "top of library matters" commander. The effect is powerful as it provides a reusable source of card advantage but it conditional based on knowing what the top card of your library is. This makes her work well with effects like Future Sight and Lantern of Insight along with scry abilities. Even if you get the extra cards, they are revealed to your opponents which is a slight downside to the effect. The card also has mediocre stats considering its converted mana cost and color requirements which also makes it easy to remove.
The activated ability has obvious synergy with the triggered ability. You can use it to scry to dig for specific answers or to set up the top of your library so you can reveal the correct card type to gain card advantage. The life loss of the activated ability can be mitigated by the life gain of the triggered ability.
An alternate way to play Reeva, Bog Guide is to build a narrow deck with a high rate of a specific card type. For example, an artifact themed deck with 40+ artifacts. Under this scenario, even if you don't know the top card of your library, guessing artifact gives you a decent chance of gaining card advantage or getting you closer to another artifact. This concept could work with other card types as well (i.e. enchantments matter).
I don't like that you used the recently spoiled commander art, this particular one haunts me.
Based on other similar effects it should be "If the revealed card is the chosen type..." rather than "If the revealed card shares the chosen card type" the "shares" is unneeded. Fertile Imagination is the closest similar effect, though there are quite a few.
I really like the card, but it being each players upkeep might be too much. Its best application is as you said in narrow theme decks. On every upkeep either scry away a non(type of your choice) or put a (type of your choice) into your hand, that can get rather oppressive very fast. Especially with those three colors, you have ready access to your choice of most of the best creatures, artifacts, instants, sorcerys and walkers.
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Legendary Creature – Human Cleric [MR]
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, choose a card type, then reveal the top card of your library. If the revealed card shares the chosen card type, you gain life equal to its converted mana cost and put that card into your hand. Otherwise, put the revealed card on the bottom of your library.
T, Pay 2 life: Scry 2.
2/2
See spoiler below for Reeva, Bog Guide design notes:
I created Reeva, Bog Guide as a bottom up "top of library matters" commander. The effect is powerful as it provides a reusable source of card advantage but it conditional based on knowing what the top card of your library is. This makes her work well with effects like Future Sight and Lantern of Insight along with scry abilities. Even if you get the extra cards, they are revealed to your opponents which is a slight downside to the effect. The card also has mediocre stats considering its converted mana cost and color requirements which also makes it easy to remove.
The activated ability has obvious synergy with the triggered ability. You can use it to scry to dig for specific answers or to set up the top of your library so you can reveal the correct card type to gain card advantage. The life loss of the activated ability can be mitigated by the life gain of the triggered ability.
An alternate way to play Reeva, Bog Guide is to build a narrow deck with a high rate of a specific card type. For example, an artifact themed deck with 40+ artifacts. Under this scenario, even if you don't know the top card of your library, guessing artifact gives you a decent chance of gaining card advantage or getting you closer to another artifact. This concept could work with other card types as well (i.e. enchantments matter).
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Based on other similar effects it should be "If the revealed card is the chosen type..." rather than "If the revealed card shares the chosen card type" the "shares" is unneeded. Fertile Imagination is the closest similar effect, though there are quite a few.
I really like the card, but it being each players upkeep might be too much. Its best application is as you said in narrow theme decks. On every upkeep either scry away a non(type of your choice) or put a (type of your choice) into your hand, that can get rather oppressive very fast. Especially with those three colors, you have ready access to your choice of most of the best creatures, artifacts, instants, sorcerys and walkers.